CA and legal are aware. While TOS or other more global polices are certainly an option I'm not actually sure that's the right move 'at the moment'. There is a lot of movement to look at options (which will include wide community discussion) and may lead in a direction like that but, in general, that is not a reason to delay implementation of processes like this which can, in fact, assist with the decision making and the tweaking. Once you've made a giant global policy tweaking it is really hard! Even when everyone agrees it needs it (and therefore the policy ends up being less and less enforced even where it should be). Yes a global policy would have a wide consultation or RfC type discussion before being but that's not the only thing we NEED here in order to get something that works. We need to see it in ACTION and be able to see what works and what doesn't work.
James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Matthew. If you intend this to be binding, I suggest that you coordinate > this with other work being done by WMF Community Advocacy and Legal. My > hope would be to have a uniform Friendly Space Policy that is a TOS > amendment and applies to all Wikimedia spaces. > > A note on IRC channels: these are generally governed by Freenode with the > assistance of volunteers, and not WMF. I imagine that a WMF policy that has > community consensus would be enforced by IRC ops in Wikimedia-themed > channels. In general, I think ops are good at keeping the peace. > > Regards, > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
